A Le Monde investigation shows how public fitness-app data was used to identify nearly 18,600 French military personnel and track sensitive deployments. This blog summarizes the article’s findings and explains the broader lesson: consumer technology, public-by-default settings, and weak digital discipline can create systemic operational security risk for governments and contractors alike.

This blog summarizes GAO’s 2025 testimony on DOD’s digital-footprint risks and publicly accessible information, explaining how aggregated online data can threaten missions and personnel, and why federal government contractors must adapt policies, training, and security practices in response.